Aristotle A Guide For The Perplexed

Author : John Vella
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441154183
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed written by John Vella and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a millennium, Aristotle was regarded as the foremost authority in the western world in nearly every subject. His corpus spans a daunting array of subjects and he made significant contributions to every known field of inquiry in the ancient world. In Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed, John Vella explores the historical, philosophical and political context in which aristotle's theories evolved. The book offers a clear and thorough account of the work and thought of this key thinker, providing an outline of his central ideas and the ways in which they have influenced the history of western philosophy. Thematically structured, the book considers all Aristotle's key works and is geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of his theories and ideas.

Author : John Vella
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 082649708X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed written by John Vella and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed offers a clear and thorough account of the work and thought of this key thinker, providing an outline of his central ideas and the ways in which they have influenced the history of western philosophy.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book The Guide for the Perplexed written by Moses Maimonides and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred L. Ivry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639526X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed written by Alfred L. Ivry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary—even contradictory—statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guarded and dissembling manner in order to convey different meanings to different readers, with the knowledge that many would resist his bold reformulations of God and his relation to mankind. As a result, for all the acclaim the Guide has received, comprehension of it has been unattainable to all but a few in every generation. Drawing on a lifetime of study, Alfred L. Ivry has written the definitive guide to the Guide—one that makes it comprehensible and exciting to even those relatively unacquainted with Maimonides’ thought, while also offering an original and provocative interpretation that will command the interest of scholars. Ivry offers a chapter-by-chapter exposition of the widely accepted Shlomo Pines translation of the text along with a clear paraphrase that clarifies the key terms and concepts. Corresponding analyses take readers more deeply into the text, exploring the philosophical issues it raises, many dealing with metaphysics in both its ontological and epistemic aspects.

Author : Daniel Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480519
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed written by Daniel Frank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230857565
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guide for the Perplexed written by Moses Maimonides and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...Aristotle could not have considered them conclusive, after having himself taught us the rules of logic, and the means by which arguments can be refuted or confirmed. The reason why I have introduced this subject is this: Later philosophers, disciples of Aristotle, assume that he has proved the Eternity of the Universe, and most of those who believe that they are philosophers blindly follow him in this point, and accept all his arguments as conclusive and absolute proofs. They consider it wrong to differ from Aristotle, or to think that he was ignorant or mistaken in anything. For this reason, taking their standpoint, I show that Aristotle himself did not claim to have proved the Eternity of the Universe. He says in his book Physics (viii., chap, i.) as follows: "All the Physicists before us believed that motion is eternal, except Plato, who holds that motion is transient; according to his opinion the heavens are likewise transient." Now if Aristotle had conclusive proofs for his theory, he would not have considered it necessary to support it by citing the opinions of preceding Physicists, nor would he have found it necessary to point out the folly and absurdity of his opponents. For a truth, once established by proof, does neither gain force nor certainty by the consent of all scholars, nor lose by the general dissent. We further find that Aristotle, in the book The Heavens and the Worldj introduces his theory of the Eternity of the Universe in the following manner: "Let us inquire into the nature of the heavens, and see whether they are the product of something or not, destructible or not. After this statement of the problem, he proceeds to cite the views of those who hold that the heavens have had a beginning, and...

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486203514
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guide for the Perplexed written by Moses Maimonides and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1956-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete text of crucial medieval work of philosophy: reconciliation of Aristotle and Scripture. Includes Life of Maimonides, analysis of The Guide, indexes of quotations from Scripture, Talmud. Maimonides, brilliant forerunner of Aquinas.

Author : Kenneth Seeskin
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780874415094
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maimonides written by Kenneth Seeskin and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic questions Maimonides contemplated in Guide for the Perplexed are addressed here in modern language. How should we describe God? What makes monotheism special? Why does evil exist in God's world? How will we know when the Messiah has come? Maimonides' philosophy and teachings, so significant to Jewish thought, made accessible to everyone.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872203242
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guide of the Perplexed written by Moses Maimonides and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb abridgement and annotated translation of Maimonides' monumental work includes discussions of divine language, the scope and limits of human knowledge, cosmological doctrines concerning the creation or eternity of the world, prophecy and providence, the nature and purpose of divine law, and moral and political philosophy.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624660754
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guide of the Perplexed written by Moses Maimonides and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The reissue of Guttmann's edition of Rabin's translation is a welcome event. There has long been a need for a readable, judicious edition, for classroom use, of this large and complex work." --Michael L. Morgan, Indiana University